Category Archives: General

So, AJAX is one of the more recent causes of excitement in the web-based application delivery world. The first major site to feature AJAX (as far as I know) was Google’s gmail. Assuming that you are okay with writing tons of Javascript, it’s quite a nice way to spice up your application enough to makeContinue reading “Attempting AJAX”

I’ve arrived in town an hour too early for the Internet joint to open. I came alone, so I have some time to kill. I’ve come to the top of Montepulciano to look west over some of the most pictuesque scenes in Tuscany. Wait a minute: I take that back. Pretty much everything in TuscanyContinue reading “An Hour in Montepulciano”

The Terre Haute Tribune-Star, a puplication I rarely think of since I graduated from college, is running a story about how Indiana State University (in the ‘Haute) will be the “first public university in the state to require all students to have notebook computers“. After mentioning ISU’s new plan, the article goes on to sayContinue reading “Terre Haute Tribune-Star Snubs Hometown School”

Brian has an article on his blog about Hyperthreaded CPUs and their effects on “the user experience”, by which I’m sure he means the typical response on a graphical desktop to a user’s actions — something like moving the mouse, dragging a window, opening-up a menu, etc. I disagree with a few of his assertions…Continue reading “Hyperthreading CPUs and User Experience”

Using a programming language touted for its strong internationalization support along with an application server that should do the same, one would think that “international” characters would be easier to deal with. It turns out that the world is out to get me.